Tibetan Buddhist nuns take up feminism and seek equal status with monks
Source:
South China Morning Post
Change is in the air at world’s biggest Tibetan Buddhist academy, in China’s Sichuan province, as nuns stand up for themselves and for Tibetan women as a whole. Monks appear split on their demands
Religiously devoted and with a shaved head and flowing burgundy robes, Xinde Shijiamouni has all the trappings of a Tibetan Buddhist monk. But her serenity is troubled because, as a nun, she cannot reach the same clerical status as a man.
In the harsh terrain and relative isolation of western China, Tibetan culture has long been patriarchal. Now more than 100 nuns
